Dubliner Pub

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If you can't get to Dublin to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, there's a little piece of Ireland nestled underground at 1205 Harney Street in the Old Market, its basement entrance rising out of the sidewalk as suddenly as a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. "We've been extremely fortunate that it's been so successful because it's not like it's in the middle of a high-traffic area where you drive down the street and go 'there's The Dubliner!'," owner Frank Vance says. "It's in the basement, there's a little rock out front and that's about it." The Dubliner Pub's patrons "drink up" today, but the building's original customers were more likely to "hitch up" during its 1894 start as a tack supply business. And no one could "loosen up"